Anyhoot...

Gaara: Love?

Kankuro: Here we go...

Gaara, TRIGGERED by the L word: Such a concept...I never used to understand it when I was still in the darkness, and sought to destroy the Earth. But I would like to believe that after meeting Naruto Uzumaki, enlightenment has come upon me......Shinki...if I were still in darkness, to me you might be the sun that blinded my mortal sight for all eternity...even now, looking at you fills my heart with a kind of pain, but unlike loneliness I do not wish for the pain to end, for it burns and soothes my soul like water upon the throat of a dying man in the desert...Upon observing your excellence, I swell to the point of spilling with a sensation I am told is pride, and yet, despite your obvious power, I see in every inch of you the fragility of humanity...it fills me with fear that you may break beneath my hands, as well as satisfaction that I am still needed by you, to care for and nurture and bestow the utmost affection upon--not unlike cacti, which depend on me for their existence--so that you may bloom into the most brilliant flower the world has ever seen. This feeling...this animalistic urge to keep you close to me and to nurture and protect...it is hard to describe, but it grows inside me every day, like a parasite...you, Shinki, are the source of the its power.

Shinki: ...

Kankuro: Yes Shinki.

*Naruto clenches his fist

Naruto *softly: Sasuke...

Sasuke *from across the room: WHAT

Will we meet again sometime? I’m sure we will. Promise? Promise. Now go, and don’t look back.